{"id":1424,"date":"2020-03-05T10:37:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T15:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2020-03-05T10:37:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T15:37:07","slug":"can-we-not-be-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/can-we-not-be-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Not Be Enemies?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This election is the most important election in the history of the United States.
\nI don’t think I’m saying anything people don’t already know but, good Godde, please remember it! Or to put it another way: policies, schmalicies. We need to get the authoritarian kleptocracy and their supporters out of power. Not just the top of the ticket, but down ballot. Our enemy is the evil perpetrated by the current administration not one another.<\/p>\n

Yes. Absolutely yes, policies are important and Warren’s and some of Bernie’s policies make better sense and are a more compassionate and realistic way to be in political relationship with one another. However, Bernie’s critique focuses on class and does not have a significant critique of racism or sexism that must be addressed if true equity is possible. Women and people of color often feel left out of his critique. Warren’s policies all make sense and we are waiting to see if her candidacy is still viable.
\nJoe’s approach is more methodical but headed in the same direction. \u00a0I like to think of Joe as a transitional figure, someone who will get us out of this horrific time and reintroduce decency as assumed rather than the exception.
\nChange is absolutely necessary and important. I don’t care how we do it. \u00a0I will vote for whoever gets the nomination.
\nBut.
\nIn the mean time. can we please not be enemies. On my own facebook page I made \u00a0non-confrontive reply to an article about Bernie. Rather than spark a conversation I was told that I had a problem.
\nCome on, folks. Is this how we are going to get through, survive, unite, and eventually thrive?
\nThere is no way a party as large and diverse as the Democratic Party will not be in disagreement. It’s one of the things I love about it. We have a big tent. We are a passionate bunch who are motivated to make the change we so desperately need but we have to remember we are on the same team. So please, please, can we not be enemies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This election is the most important election in the history of the United States. I don’t think I’m saying anything people don’t already know but, good Godde, please remember it! Or to put it another way: policies, schmalicies. We need to get the authoritarian kleptocracy and their supporters out of power. Not just the top … Continue reading Can We Not Be Enemies?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,23,25,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}